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THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF<br/>
<span class=large>JOHN</span>
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CHAPTER 4
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Try the spirits—God is love and dwells in those who love him.
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Beloved,</span> believe not every <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moro. 7: 12 (12-17).">spirit</a>, but <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/4/1b" mark="b" type="Q" title="GR test, prove by trial, discern; 1 Thes. 5: 21; D&C 11: 12 (12-14); D&C 50: 31 (1-3, 31-35); D&C 129: 9 (1-9).">try</a> the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/4/1c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Spirits, Evil or Unclean.">spirits</a> whether they are of God: because many <sup>d</sup><a href="1_jn/4/1d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of the Early Christian Church; TG False Prophets.">false</a> prophets are gone out into the world.
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Hereby <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Discernment, Spiritual.">know</a> ye the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/4/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Spirit of.">Spirit</a> of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/4/2c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Flesh and Blood.">flesh</a> is of God:
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And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 50: 32.">not</a> of God: and this is that <i>spirit</i> of <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/4/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Antichrist.">antichrist</a>, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
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Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
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They are of the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Worldliness.">world</a>: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
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We are of God: he that knoweth God <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 8: 47; John 13: 20; D&C 1: 38 (14, 37-38); D&C 29: 7; D&C 84: 36 (35-39).">heareth</a> us; he that is not of God heareth not us.  Hereby <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/4/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Discernment, Spiritual.">know</a> we the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/4/6c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Holy Ghost, Mission of.">spirit</a> of truth, and the spirit of <sup>d</sup><a href="1_jn/4/6d" mark="d" type="P" title="GR deception, wandering, sin.">error</a>.
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Beloved, let us <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Love.">love</a> one another: for <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/4/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Love of.">love</a> is of God; and every one that loveth is <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/4/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Man, New, Spiritually Reborn.">born</a> of God, and knoweth God.
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He that loveth not <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 17: 3.">knoweth</a> not God; for God is love.
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In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 3: 16.">live</a> through him.
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Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Thes. 2: 16.">loved</a> us, and <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/4/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Authority of.">sent</a> his Son <i>to be</i> the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/4/10c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Atonement through; TG Jesus Christ, Redeemer.">propitiation</a> for our sins.
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Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/12a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Jn. 4: 12 No man hath seen God at any time, except them who believe  . . .">No</a> man hath <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/4/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 93: 1; D&C 110: 2 (1-3); Abr. 3: 11 (11-12); JS-H 1: 17 (16-17).">seen</a> God at any time.  If we love one another, <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/4/12c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Cor. 13: 5.">God</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="1_jn/4/12d" mark="d" type="A" title="1 Cor. 2: 16.">dwelleth</a> in us, and his love is perfected in us.
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Hereby know we that we <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Jn. 3: 24.">dwell</a> in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
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And we have seen and do <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Witnesses.">testify</a> that the Father <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/4/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Authority of.">sent</a> the Son <i>to be</i> the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/4/14c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Savior.">Saviour</a> of the <sup>d</sup><a href="1_jn/4/14d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 66: 1.">world</a>.
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Whosoever shall <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Testimony.">confess</a> that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
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And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.  God is love; and he that <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 42: 45.">dwelleth</a> in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
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Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Exemplar.">is</a>, so are we in this world.
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There is no <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/18a" mark="a" type="C" title="Philip. 1: 14 (12-17); D&C 50: 41 (41, 42); TG Fearfulness.">fear</a> in <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/4/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Family, Love within.">love</a>; but perfect <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/4/18c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Love.">love</a> casteth out fear: because fear hath <sup>d</sup><a href="1_jn/4/18d" mark="d" type="P" title="GR correction, punishment.">torment</a>.  He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
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We <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Love.">love</a> him, because he first loved us.
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If a man say, I love God, and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Family, Love within; TG Hate.">hateth</a> his <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/4/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Brotherhood and Sisterhood.">brother</a>, he is a <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/4/20c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Lying.">liar</a>: for he that loveth not his <sup>d</sup><a href="1_jn/4/20d" mark="d" type="A" title="1 Jn. 3: 17 (10-18).">brother</a> whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not <sup>e</sup><a href="1_jn/4/20e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG God, Privilege of Seeing.">seen</a>?
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And this commandment have we from him, That he who <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/4/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Fellowshipping; TG Love.">loveth</a> God love his brother also.
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